Each person in the class will be assigned a single term. By the due date, each entry must contain the following seven parts: Word, Full Definition(s) + published sample sentence(s), an original sentence with clear context clue, image, and memory tip.
Sample:
Published Sentence: Most allusions are based on the assumption that there is a body of knowledge that is shared by the author and the reader and that therefore the reader will understand the author’s referent. -Britannica Online Original Sentence: I n many current articles or novels, writers often use allusions to refer to Shakespeare. Image:
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Memory Tip: A novel that has an allusion in it will lead to a more knowledgeable conclusion. An allusion is something that both the reader and writer should all have knowledge of and all be in on.
Word Assignments: There will be a quiz over these words + the style words from your pre-quiz next Friday, September 9th. Each student's word: candor, demotic, curmudgeonly, discordant, culpability, presumptuous, eccentricity, discourse, perverse, tangential, transience, provocation, impertinence, quintessential, anchorite
Anchorite-
denotes someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, and—circumstances permitting—Eucharist-focused life.
Perverse by Anastasia Pavlova
[per-vurs]
1. willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
2. characterized by or proceeding from such a determination or disposition: a perverse mood.
3. wayward or cantankerous.
4. persistent or obstinate in what is wrong.
5. turned away from or rejecting what is right, good, or proper; wicked or corrupt. Published Sentence: He seems to take perverse pleasure in making things as difficult as possible. - Merriam-Webster Dictionary Original Sentence: When i correct my sister's math errors, she is perverse enough to insist that he is right. Image: Memory Tip: Perverse is a reverse of a good thing.
Presumptuous-
(of a person or their behavior) Failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.
Impertinence by Allie Slingsby [im-pur-tn-uhns] 1. unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence.2. impertinent quality or action.3.something impertinent, as an act or statement.4.an impertinent person.5.irrelevance, inappropriateness, or absurdity. Published Sentence: "It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions." Mark Twain Original Sentence: It is like Bob's impertinence to blow spit balls at dinner, because it is insolent. Image: Memory Tip:impertinence is im-polite, or rude.
Provocation-By Katie Sandage
(prov-uh-key-shuh-n) 1. the act of provoking 2. something that incites, instigates, angers, orirritates.
Published Sentence: He'd fly into rage at the slightest provocation.
Original Sentence: The provocation given by my mother caused me to go into a fit of anger.
Image:
Memory Clue: If you take out the rov in the middle of provoke, it spells poke. Everyone knows how annoying the poking game is and how the provocation of the situation can cause much anger.
Quintessential by Lyndsay Shaver
[kwin-tuh-sen-shuhl]
1. Of pure and essential essence of something 2. Of or pertaining to the most perfect embodiment of something
Published Sentence:
This is splendid social history, the quintessential American story of people and community. Original Sentence:
They are the quintessential team, who always works together and pushes one anther to be the best that they can be. Image:
Memory Tip: It is essential to have a quintessential example to share
Tangential - Shelby Stork [tan-jen-shuhl] 1. Of, relating to, or of the nature of a tangent
2. Acting along of lying in a tangent
3. Divergent or digressive
4. Touching lightly, incidental, peripheral Published Sentence: Their romance is tangential to the books main thought. (Merriam-Webster) Original Sentence: The answer you provided was tangential to the actual question. Image: Memory Tip: If you go on a tangent, you are diverging from your original point.
Culpability by Cindy Ndiaye
[kəl-pə-bel-itē]
1) Responsibility for a fault or wrong and to have blameworthiness.
2) A state of guilt.
Published Sentence: They held her culpable for the accident.- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
OriginalSentnce: After Sam ran over his neighbor’dog, he felt a strong sense of culpability.
Image:
Memory Tip: Criminals can also be called culprits, which are people who should feel a sort of culpability for their actions.
Discordant - Sankhya Amaravadi
[dis-kawr-dnt]
1. being at variance; incongrous; discordant opinions
2. disagreeable to the ear; harsh
Published Sentence: If a song ends in one key and then the next song starts in a discordant key, it psychologically jars the audience.
Original Sentence: After arguing for a long time, the two sides were still discordant with each other and simply could not agree on a solution.
Image: Memory Tip:Discordance is being disagreeable.
Demotic Sabrina Miller
(Dih-mot-ik)
Of or pertaining to the ordinary, everyday, current form of alanguage; vernacular: a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.
Of or pertaining to the common people; popular.
Of, pertaining to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 B.C. and A.D. 500.
Published Sentence: A poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.
Original Sentence: The writing in this novel is very demotic; it is very simple and easy to comprehend in this day and age.
(In the day it was used commonly, this writing would have been considered demotic.)
Writing Tip: When a piece of writing is considered demotic, it does not demotivate you from reading the piece.
Candor by Alina Makarenko
[kan-dər]
Full Definition:
a) Frankness of expression; sincerity; straightforwardness.
b) Freedom from prejudice; impartiality.
Published Sentence: "Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman." - James F. Cooper.
Original Sentence: Openness and candor are not so "popular" now.
Memory tip: When speaking candidly, you will be using candor.
Curmudgeonly by Aleta Cardinal
[ker-muhj-uh'n-lee]
Definition: the state of being difficult, bad-tempered, or cantankerous.
Published sentence: Peter Lawrence Boyle, American actor, showcased his comic talents in a series of films, notably as the creature in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein and as the curmudgeonly Frank Barone in the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. -Britannia Online
Originalsentence: I deal with curmudgeonly old people all day at work on Wednesday; seniors day.
Image:
Memory tip: a crummy grumpy old man is acting curmudgeonly.
Transience
[tran-shuhns, -zhuhns, -zee-uhns]
1) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying 2) the attribute of being brief or fleeting Published Sentence: “Maybe it's the curse of globalized life, or maybe there's something attractive about transience.” - 50 First Dates Original Sentence: The transience in the room made everyone upset.
Image:
Memory Tip: Add an “I” in the first part of the word (transience) to make the word “train”. Trains are able to fleet or disappear. And the all have and end destination.
Discourse Brett Blankenship
[dis-kawrs]
Definition: Communication of thoughts by words
Published Sentence: Obama doesn't care a whit about the civility of our public discourse. (Health care news blog)
Original Sentence: The teacher is tired of the discourse between students.
Memory Tip: Get help in the course with some discourse with a friend
Eccentricity:
Definition: Deviation from an established pattern or norm; especially: odd or whimsical behavior. Published Sentence: "Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." -Edith Sitwell Original Sentence: If we were all filled with eccentricity, eccentric behavior would be considered normal. Memory Tip: Eccentric="Ex"Center=Off Center=Odd. vs. Center=Normal.
Sample:
Published Sentence: Most allusions are based on the assumption that there is a body of knowledge that is shared by the author and the reader and that therefore the reader will understand the author’s referent. -Britannica Online
Original Sentence: I
n many current articles or novels, writers often use allusions to refer to Shakespeare.
Image:
Memory Tip: A novel that has an allusion in it will lead to a more knowledgeable conclusion. An allusion is something that both the reader and writer should all have knowledge of and all be in on.
Word Assignments: There will be a quiz over these words + the style words from your pre-quiz next Friday, September 9th. Each student's word: candor, demotic, curmudgeonly, discordant, culpability, presumptuous, eccentricity, discourse, perverse, tangential, transience, provocation, impertinence, quintessential, anchorite
Anchorite-
denotes someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, and—circumstances permitting—Eucharist-focused life.
Perverse by Anastasia Pavlova
[per-vurs]
1. willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
2. characterized by or proceeding from such a determination or disposition: a perverse mood.
3. wayward or cantankerous.
4. persistent or obstinate in what is wrong.
5. turned away from or rejecting what is right, good, or proper; wicked or corrupt.
Published Sentence: He seems to take perverse pleasure in making things as difficult as possible. - Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Original Sentence: When i correct my sister's math errors, she is perverse enough to insist that he is right.
Image:
Memory Tip: Perverse is a reverse of a good thing.
Presumptuous-
(of a person or their behavior) Failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.
Impertinence by Allie Slingsby
[im-pur-tn-uhns]
1. unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence.2. impertinent quality or action.3.something impertinent, as an act or statement.4.an impertinent person.5.irrelevance, inappropriateness, or absurdity.
Published Sentence:
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
Mark Twain
Original Sentence: It is like Bob's impertinence to blow spit balls at dinner, because it is insolent.
Image:
Memory Tip: impertinence is im-polite, or rude.
Provocation-By Katie Sandage
(prov-uh-key-shuh-n)1. the act of provoking
2. something that incites, instigates, angers, orirritates.
Published Sentence: He'd fly into rage at the slightest provocation.
Original Sentence: The provocation given by my mother caused me to go into a fit of anger.
Image:
Memory Clue: If you take out the rov in the middle of provoke, it spells poke. Everyone knows how annoying the poking game is and how the provocation of the situation can cause much anger.
Quintessential by Lyndsay Shaver[kwin-tuh-sen-shuhl]
1. Of pure and essential essence of something 2. Of or pertaining to the most perfect embodiment of something
Published Sentence:
This is splendid social history, the quintessential American story of people and community.
Original Sentence:
They are the quintessential team, who always works together and pushes one anther to be the best that they can be.
Image:
Memory Tip: It is essential to have a quintessential example to share
Tangential - Shelby Stork
[tan-jen-shuhl]
1. Of, relating to, or of the nature of a tangent
2. Acting along of lying in a tangent
3. Divergent or digressive
4. Touching lightly, incidental, peripheral
Published Sentence: Their romance is tangential to the books main thought. (Merriam-Webster)
Original Sentence: The answer you provided was tangential to the actual question.
Image:
Memory Tip: If you go on a tangent, you are diverging from your original point.
Culpability by Cindy Ndiaye
[kəl-pə-bel-itē]
1) Responsibility for a fault or wrong and to have blameworthiness.
2) A state of guilt.
Published Sentence: They held her culpable for the accident.- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Original Sentnce: After Sam ran over his neighbor’dog, he felt a strong sense of culpability.
Image:
Memory Tip: Criminals can also be called culprits, which are people who should feel a sort of culpability for their actions.
Discordant - Sankhya Amaravadi
[dis-kawr-dnt]
1. being at variance; incongrous; discordant opinions
2. disagreeable to the ear; harsh
Published Sentence: If a song ends in one key and then the next song starts in a discordant key, it psychologically jars the audience.
Original Sentence: After arguing for a long time, the two sides were still discordant with each other and simply could not agree on a solution.
Image:
Memory Tip: Discordance is being disagreeable.
Demotic Sabrina Miller
(Dih-mot-ik)
Candor by Alina Makarenko
[kan-dər]- Full Definition:
b) Freedom from prejudice; impartiality.a) Frankness of expression; sincerity; straightforwardness.
Curmudgeonly by Aleta Cardinal
[ker-muhj-uh'n-lee]
Definition: the state of being difficult, bad-tempered, or cantankerous.
Published sentence: Peter Lawrence Boyle, American actor, showcased his comic talents in a series of films, notably as the creature in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein and as the curmudgeonly Frank Barone in the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. -Britannia Online
Original sentence: I deal with curmudgeonly old people all day at work on Wednesday; seniors day.
Image:
Memory tip: a crummy grumpy old man is acting curmudgeonly.
Transience
[tran-shuhns, -zhuhns, -zee-uhns]
1) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
2) the attribute of being brief or fleeting
Published Sentence: “Maybe it's the curse of globalized life, or maybe there's something attractive about transience.”
- 50 First Dates
Original Sentence: The transience in the room made everyone upset.
Image:
Memory Tip:
Add an “I” in the first part of the word (transience) to make the word “train”. Trains are able to fleet or disappear. And the all have and end destination.
Discourse Brett Blankenship
[dis-kawrs]
Definition: Communication of thoughts by words
Published Sentence: Obama doesn't care a whit about the civility of our public discourse. (Health care news blog)
Original Sentence: The teacher is tired of the discourse between students.
Memory Tip: Get help in the course with some discourse with a friend
Eccentricity:
Definition: Deviation from an established pattern or norm; especially: odd or whimsical behavior.Published Sentence: "Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." -Edith Sitwell
Original Sentence: If we were all filled with eccentricity, eccentric behavior would be considered normal.
Memory Tip: Eccentric="Ex"Center=Off Center=Odd. vs. Center=Normal.